Populär Vun Georgia

Documentary by Omar Gvasalia

Following the loss of her phone, a young woman discovers frightening photographs made by an unidentified photographer known as the Gag Lady. As she digs deeper, she uncovers a diabolical conspiracy with terrifying ramifications.

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When Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, it became clear to anyone that the aggressor was conducting a hybrid war against Ukraine. It conquered Crimea with a combination of disinformation, propaganda, and secret military support for rebel groups and covert military operations. The only surprise is that many people were surprised when Russia deployed this military strategy, because it has a long history of doing so.

While Temo, a 10-year old Georgian boy, is excited about receiving several chocolate Easter bunnies as a present from abroad, his father tries to use the moment to teach him a lesson.

This short hybrid documentary is a portrait of a 13-year-old girl in Gori, Georgia with a vivid imagination and love of storytelling.

The film is about a young student director, a boy who tries to convince a famous actress to play the lead role in his play. The play is based on documentary facts, which tells about the murder of 3 people that happened in Georgia in 2015-2017.

Soso Chkhaidze's documentary film "Kolkhida". Director's course work. Shot in 1967, in the third year of the Moscow Institute of Cinematography (ВГИК) (Pavel Chukhray's studio).

Since the end of the civil war in the early 1990s, the region of Abkhazia has been acting independently of Georgia. This has turned a massive dam into a border. But the hydroelectric power station also connects the two political entities: Because over a distance of fifteen kilometres the water flows freely, underground, from one side to the other. When a young journalist gets stranded here, stories of division emerge.

Postoto-the epitaph of Oto Katamadze from Batumi, who made his school friends listen to 30 years of out-of-fashion Led Zeppelin, put together a band that a few years later turned out to be one of the brightest and most influential blues bands in Georgia — and died in a car accident. Assembled from the monologues of close friends and colleagues of the musician, the film evokes an almost physical sense of loss, lack: in the place of the main character in this story, an uncomfortable, not yet prolonged void yawns. The snow-covered Black Sea coast in the finale is not the most obvious (and yet readable) visual image of rock and roll: from the winter Yalta in "Ass" and the final scene of "Needle" to the classic cover of "Russian Field of Experiments", white snow in the post-Soviet latitudes has always been considered a suitable background for the slogan Live fast, die young.

Henry is a 20 year-old American gay boy studying Georgian folk music. He will be a hostage, a victim, fiance, sweetheart and knight. A strange exotic tradition. Henry's humanity character saves a girl's life.

Irakli and Elena escape city life in a highland village. They want to restore a good relationship. Elena tries to create spiritual peace through yoga, while Irakli is addicted to alcohol, therefore they do not have a harmonious relationship, nevertheless they continue to live together.

The film tells the story of a large family in a village, which is locked in one space due to snow, but despite being in the same building, they do not have close contact with each other. The main character is Nika, disabled persons. He is excluded from siblings and only has a relationship with the father.

The 2008 Georgian War resulted in the deaths of several hundred people and expulsion of tens of thousands from South Ossetia. Is there a way to show the tragedy of families that lost their loved ones, thousands of people forced to leave their homes, soldiers doing the fighting, and children who cannot comprehend the situation? Salomé Jashi answers this question in a way that leaves few apathetic, though the horrors of war are never visible on the screen. Her short film is based on an interesting formula of making the audience witness to a tragedy it never sees.

This film explores how neighbours sharing a courtyard are both shaped by, and indifferent to, domestic violence.

he story describes the events of the civil war in 1992 in Tbilisi. Death is seen as something obvious, normal and an everyday occurrence. Death brings together very different people in abnormal circumstances and at the same time it pulls them apart to finally alienate them completely. The way these people behave, only underlines the great absurdity and tragedy of war.

A patient dies in a small remote hospital under questionable circumstances. The police arrive at the scene to start the investigation. They look for night duty doctor Nino for an interrogation since she was in charge of supervising the deceased woman. The investigation makes it clear that the death of the patient may not be an accident, but the police have no sufficient evidence to prove the murder.

Khaburzania and Koridze are serving their mandatory military service by guarding an abandoned factory which was sold recently, they are ordered not to let anyone inside. Despite the harsh conditions, guys are having fun, they're joking on walkie-talkie with the officer, Koridze even manages to sneak out for a date. It seems like an ordinary shift until some workers arrive at the fence, they desperately want to get inside and finish work they've started before.

Beka is 26 years old... His father taught him his profession. Beka makes art photography and a film about a physicist and composer. He had his first photo exhibition recently. Father's patience and understanding helped him to introduce his son to adult life and make him believe in his own talent.